Sparsh has sparshed (aka, touched) our hearts and minds. It has started operating defence pensioners pension. I am not sure why. But this I think I know: a defence pensioner has to work really hard to prove that s/he is alive.
Coming at the heels of this life certificate conundrum is the trouble that is brewing for fauji pensioners in yumlok. It is believed that Yamraj has directed that deceased fauji pensioners will have to renew their death certificates every November. In the absence of such renewal, they will be turned out of heaven. Defence pensioners who are resident of hell are in any case happy to be turned out of hell.
The defence pensioners are in a quandary because of this order. It is well known that the Office of the Registrar of Birth and Death does not renew birth or death certificates. The office bearers say: once you are dead, you are dead.
*Yamraj: Under Whose directions atmans are carried away after death.
*yumlok: The domain of Yamraj
*fauji: Servicemen and women
3 comments:
Deadly thinking ..
We are expendable. Once retired we are orphans. Once we die our widows become persona non grata. Thanks to Our policy / lawmakers.
@Anonymous:
The main thing to notice is that pension is being stopped for want of life certificate as opposed to being stopped after issuance of death certificate.
All births and deaths certificates are digitized and are online data. One has just to link the death certificate with aadhar card (which in turn is linked to the pensioner's bank account) to stop pension/start family pension.
We pride ourselves so much about digitization of India and the reliability of aadhar card, but we create another new system that creates bottlenecks, depends on third party (unreliable) software.
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